Basinbum,

I used to fly at the basin in Van Nuys. Had a lot of fun there. Is Ken still around out there? I heard he was making little soda can airplanes for fun. He taught me how to fly r/c. I miss the conversations with him and the other old timers.

Fighting the plane means when it went into the spin my brother did everything in his skill set that he could to recover. He didn't just give up after it didn't come out. He neutraled the sticks, opposite rudder, etc etc. Obviously, he didn't do it right otherwise it should have come out. SORRY BRO! I think he never got the wing flying again and kept it in a stalled attitude. It needed some down elevator to come out. It wasn't coming out otherwise. I noticed on a hammer head that it took quite a bit of airspeed to recover cleanly from the manuver. So I kept some throttle in on all of the aerobatics I did with it. I never got it flying too slow. I put a Hobbico Extra into a spin once, came out early and put it into an opposite flat spin that I didn't recover from.

The main gear on the H9 were holding up. There was a lot of slop in them and the plane sat a little off center because of it, but the mains were working fine.

I agree that it was a good flyer. I think I'm learning that you have to fly within the limits of the airplane. Maybe someone who is more skilled than I am can describe excatly what those limits are? I still think you should be able to push a sport scale plane around the air with confidence. Full throttle low approaches over the runway and knife edges were very cool. The plane knife edges easily. My brothers AT-6 requires tons of elevator in the knife edge, I guess some people mix that in on their transmitter.

I'm going for a Kyosho Zero now. I hear I can put that thing through it's paces comfortably and it looks oh so cool.